Hi Ian,
Kicad libraries can be stored in any folder of your hard disk, or even on a server.
There is no difference from official (standard) libraries and any other one.
In my case, I always use my own libraries. I keep a copy of the offical libraries in my home disk because I use them as a starting point to make my own symbols and footprints.
Just copy your libraries to the desired folder.
Remember that a symbol library is a file with the .lib extension while a footprint library is a folder whose name ends with .pretty and each footprint is an independent file with the extension .kicad_mod
For a more automatic path there are some evironment variables you can find under "configure paths" menu.
KICAD_SYMBOL_DIR for symbols
KISYSMOD for footprints
Set these environment variables to point to the folder you have your libraries.
Regards,
Pedro.
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El 8/12/19 a las 23:41, Ian Bell escribi¨®:
I use a lot of components not in the standard Kicad libraries and I use them a lot. I also use a small subset of the standard libraries all the time. What I would like to do is hold all these symbols and footprints under a single folder and refer to each by a single path instead of the standard libraries. How do I do this? There are lots of tutorials about creating components but none about creating a library of them.
Cheers
Ian
